- classified
refers to the classification of a product or material under a particular heading;
- Committee
means the Special Committee on Customs and Trade Facilitation referred to in Article 34 of the stepping stone Economic Partnership Agreement between Côte d'Ivoire, of the one part, and the European Community and its Member States, of the other part, unless otherwise provided for.
- consignment
means products which are either sent simultaneously from one exporter to one consignee or covered by a single transport document covering their shipment from the exporter to the consignee or, in the absence of such a document, by a single invoice;
- customs value
means the value as determined in accordance with the Agreement on Implementation of Article VII of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (WTO Agreement on customs valuation);
- ex-works price
means the price paid for the product ex works to the manufacturer in the European Union or in Côte d'Ivoire in whose undertaking the last working or processing is carried out, provided the price includes the value of all the materials used, minus any internal taxes paid which are, or may be, repaid when the product obtained is exported;
- goods
means both materials and products;
- manufacture
means any kind of working or processing including assembly or specific operations;
- manufacture from materials of any heading, including other materials of heading …
means that only materials classified in the same heading as the product of a description other than that of the product as given in column 2 of the list may be used.
- material
means any ingredient, raw material, component or part, etc., used in the manufacture of the product;
- natural fibres
includes horsehair of heading 0511, silk of headings 5002 and 5003 as well as wool fibres and fine or coarse animal hair of headings 5101 to 5105, cotton fibres of headings 5201 to 5203 and other vegetable fibres of headings 5301 to 5305.
- OCT
means the Overseas Countries and Territories as defined in Annex VIII to this Protocol;
- product
means the product being manufactured, even if it is intended for later use in another manufacturing operation;
- territories
includes territorial waters;
- value added
means the ex-works price of the products minus the customs value of materials imported from third countries into the European Union, the African States, the Carribean and the Pacific (hereafter called the ‘ACP countries’) having applied an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) at least on a provisional basis, or OCTs;
- value of materials
means the customs value at the time of importation of the non-originating materials used, or, if this is not known and cannot be ascertained, the first ascertainable price paid for the materials in the European Union or in Côte d'Ivoire;
- value of originating materials
means the value of such materials as defined in (g) applied mutatis mutandis;